You can learn more about the ssa and ass format on the Wikipedia page. Srt doesn't support any of these things, and when converting ass to srt, all these effects are either removed or changed to normal text.Ĭhanging ass files to srt files usually works pretty well, except for the occasional overlapping text as a result of removing text position effects. It supports many effects, a few examples are custom fonts, pictures, positioned text, colors, moving text and karaoke text. You can learn more about the subrip format here.Īdvanced Substation Alpha (ass) is, as the name says, a more advanced version of the Substation Alpha (ssa) format. The paragraphs below describe what you can expect when converting your subtitles to srt. This free online format converter works with Windows, Mac (Apple) and Linux and doesn't require you to install freeware on your computer. Subrip (srt) is a very basic subtitle format, because of this you will almost always lose some functionality or effects when converting to srt.